Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 5:57pm
Have not seen Curtains or Pirate Queen yet but of those I have seen these are my favorites
Spring Awakening
Mary Poppins
Fame Becomes Me
Grey Gardens
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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:07pmAs the only one I've seen, i can only say that the others would have to be good to beat Mary Poppins. I haven't seen it in NY though, only London.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
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"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:13pm
Nice to see Sushi Sam getting into the St Pat's Day spirit
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#3re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:18pm
SPRING AWAKENING
I've also seen PIRATE QUEEN, CURTAINS, GREY GARDENS, HIGH FIDELITY, MARY POPPINS, and MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME.
Hopefully I will also see LOVEMUSIK, LEGALLY BLONDE, (and 110 IN THE SHADE, even though its a revival).
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--Aristotle
Updated On: 3/16/07 at 06:18 PM
--Aristotle
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#4re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:21pm
I've seen everything but The Times, Pirate Queen, Mary Poppins and Lovemusik.
I want noms for Grey Gardens, Curtains & Legally Blonde.
And I want Grey Gardens to take it.
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#5re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:22pm
I think curtains
I thought the pirate queen was fantastic. Grey gardens is moving but not my favorite but up there. I didn't really like spring awakening but i can see why others did. I loved Mary Poppins.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#6re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:35pm
I doubt GREY GARDENS will take it.
Here is why:
Last year, GREY GARDEN was up for the Best Musical award at the Drama Desks. It lost and DROWSY CHAPERONE won. At the Tony's DROWSY CHAPERONE lost and JERSEY BOYS won. To me, this puts GREY GARDENS behind two of last year's musicals. I didn't feel JERSEY BOYS was all that strong. So, to me, GREY GARDENS cannot be seen as very strong.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#7re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:00pm
Agree
If GG does not get it, believe me when I say it will not be GWB's fault
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#8re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:02pm
I've seen GREY GARDENS (twice), FAME BECOMES ME (once), and CURTAINS (about to see it for a second time).
If I had a vote, it would be cast for CURTAINS.
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#9re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:05pm
Spring Awakening gets my vote, without a doubt.
It's Best Revival that I'm more conflicted about. I feel like Company is the only one (that has yet opened) that has done anything at all to advance or change the original, but Sweeney just worked so much better for me (and STILL lost, sadly) that... I don't know.
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educator06
Stand-by Joined: 11/21/06
#10re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:05pmSpring Awakening will win best musical IMO.
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#12re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:11pm
I've seen practically all those that have already opened and, as of now, I would say:
Grey Gardens should win.
Spring Awakening will win.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:11pm
After I see Curtains & Pirate Queen, I can than make a final decision
They will have to go some to beat SA. Right now, it looks like GG will only pick up a Tony for Ebersol
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skingdom
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/03
#14re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:38pm
Gardens which are Grey
followed by
Awakening in the Sprintime
and then of course
POPPINS
#15re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:40pm
Grey Gardens and Spring Awakening
Definately the popular choices
"In the rain, the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever."
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#16re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:40pmIf GG does not win but Ebersole gets the nod, the fate of the whole show will depend on how long she stays. Once she leaves, the problems will start than
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ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#17re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:47pm
I thought Grey Gardens was brilliant and was disappointed with Spring Awakening. I truly believe GG is a much better show. It moved me way more than SA did.
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Updated On: 3/16/07 at 07:47 PM
#18re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:15pm
Grey Gardens is going to make a pretty cleans sweep in the acting categories, Mr. Roxy. Mary Louise Wilson seems like a frontrunner for Featured Actress, as she should be. She has a very strong chance for a win. John McMartin, a veteran actor who has beens snubbed many times in the past, notably for Follies in 1971, really should take the prize for this part of Major Bouvier. He's quite a hoot and deserves a little consolation prize for the travesty that was not winning for Follies so many years ago.
Korie and Frankel also have quite a strong chance in the category of Best Score. The music of Spring Awakening, while exiting I guess (I find it bland) has very subpar lyrics. Mr. Frankel's music for Gardens is spectacular are is Mr. Korie's lyrics. He proves himself an adept lyricist with a comic sensibility as well as a strong dramatic one. Their only compeition I can think of so far is Kander and Ebb.
Grey Gardens also has a chance in Best Musical. We haven't seen everything yet, but it has more of a chance than Spring Awakening.
I hope that Grey Gardens makes a clean sweep. It deserves to. Next to Follies at Encores! it was the most thrilling show I have seen all season.
#19re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:16pmSince I haven't seen Curtains yet, I'm going to say Spring Awakening. I really hope it wins.
#20re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:17pm
i want Grey Gardens to win!!!
i have seen Spring Awakening and Mary Poppins as well, but Grey Gardens is my favorite of those 3. I guess Curtains would get the 4th nomination?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#21re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:19pmWhile we liked GG, we are not that overly ecstatic over it as some are. We liked SA & Poppins better but agree with the acting in Gardens getting Tonys
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Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#22re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:22pmAm I the only one who thinks SA DESERVES to win?
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#23re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:26pmI hope Grey Gardens sweeps.
#24re: Your Personal favorite For Best Musical Tony
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:27pmCurtains as of now, but I'll wait to cast my final vote until after I've seen LoveMusik.
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